Slain teen's mother fights involuntary hospitalization

Christina Schumacher says she needs to be with her family, but authorities say she is at risk of harm

6:17 AM,
Jan. 12, 2014

Christina Schumacher says she has been held against her will in the psychiatric ward at Fletcher Allen Heath Care since the day after the bodies of her son and husband were found in what authorities called a murder-suicide.

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An Essex mother whose estranged husband murdered their son and then committed suicide, according to police, says she has been held against her will in the psychiatric ward at Fletcher Allen Heath Care since the day after the bodies were found more than three weeks ago.

Christina Fitzgerald Schumacher, 48, told the Burlington Free Press she tried to block her admission to the secure ward and has told mental-health workers she is fine. ...